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...Regency Hotel have all been attacked in the past weeks. "There is no mechanism in place to create a new government," says Ohashi. "The Maoists could walk into Kathmandu by default." At the very least, says the friend of the royals, "Autocracy would switch to anarchy." It's a scenario that Nepal's neighbor, India, which has an open border with the kingdom, particularly fears. Earlier last week, New Delhi dispatched two envoys to Kathmandu to persuade Gyanendra to compromise-and welcomed his Friday statement. Gyanendra's offer, said Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna, "should now pave...
...Ambassador Bloomfield says the "meltdown" scenario if the King abdicated is "far-fetched" and that a new civilian government could quickly exert control. Out on the streets, even the demonstrators express reservations about life without a monarch. "No one has a clear road map for what might happen after the King," says one, 26-year-old Ravi Shah, an administrator with a youth-education charity. "We've had a system of Kings for 237 years. Is it possible to just throw them out?" Bhandari concurs. He says that whatever the King's faults, the older generation still revere...
...militias responsible for growing sectarian strife. Not surprising, then, that Secretary Rice warned Wednesday that violence in Iraq will continue after a new government is formed, and it will be subdued only gradually. What she didn't say, of course, was that she was presenting the best-case scenario...
...This scenario has a predictable outcome. Large numbers of Asians are experiencing real per-capita income gains exceeding those in the developed world. Indeed, in the U.S. and Western Europe, median per-capita incomes adjusted for inflation have barely increased in the past 20 years; in China, the median income has doubled every 10 years since the country began opening up its economy...
...even in the unlikely scenario that the station were to start broadcasting music that catered to mainstream student interest—whatever that is at Harvard—how many students would listen anyway...